Puppet Workshops for Lewisburg’s Handmade Parade

Whether you craft a puppet or help carry one of ours, we need you! Grab your friends, family members or co-workers and join us as we prepare for the 3rd annual community celebration of creativity, the Lewisburg Handmade Parade!

The Handmade Parade is an annual legendary spectacle of imagination featuring upcycled handmade puppets, instruments and most importantly, enthusiastic community revelers, to celebrate and usher in the epic Polar Bear Plunge.  The Handmade Parade is FREE to attend and participate in!  Lewisburg’s Handmade Parade (formally the Polar Bear Plunge Parade) will take place on Saturday, February 8th, 2025, 2:00 -2:30 pm.

Four Handmade Parade Puppet Workshops will be held throughout January to create small and  large puppets using upcycled and used materials. In doing so, we breathe new life into what we already have, using creativity (and glue and paint) to create a puppet world of imagination.  This year’s workshop puppets are inspired by the Susquehanna River and will feature a Giant Egret, crayfish, dragonflies, fish and trees. We will also have a drum brigade.

• Thursday, January 9, 5:30 – 8:00pm (bucket-decorating & cutting of cardboard)
• Sunday, January 12, 2:00 – 5:00pm (cutting of cardboard & assembly)
• Thursday, January 23, 5:30 – 8:00pm (assembly & painting)
• Sunday, January 26, 2:00 – 5:00pm (assembly & painting)

Rachel Martine has been selected as this year’s featured artist and will be leading the 4 workshops. 

We want to see how you see the river. Do you paddle or splash in its current, fish in its depths or birdwatch from its shores? Do you see the river as gentle or destructive? Who are the river creatures you relate best to?

Please register below if you would like to participate in one (or more) of these free workshops.  Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.  Workshops are limited to 10 makers per session. Registration is required.